Comparing the accuracy of an ultrasound height measurement device with a wooden measurement board among children aged 2–5 years in rural Lao People’s Democratic Republic: A methods-comparison study

• Shan Huang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shan.huang@burnet.edu.au

  Affiliations Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5031-3687

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• Joel Conkle,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring, UNICEF, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Caroline S. E. Homer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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• Sengchanh Kounnavong,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lao Tropical and Public Health Institute, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Khampheng Phongluxa,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Lao Tropical and Public Health Institute, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

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• Joshua P. Vogel

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Program, Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Public Health and Preventative Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

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